Wakes

Blurb: Paige Rimestone never got to choose her fate. She wakes up inside a book she once loved, cast as a girl who dies too soon. Her future husband wants riches more than he wants her alive. Survival means turning to someone feared by everyone. The cold Duke Noah Wingknight. He might be cruel, but he’s also the closest thing to protection in a world that already wrote her off. From memories of who she was before, she pressures the Duke into agreeing to a half-year fake engagement. He gives her protection under his name. In return, she follows his hidden plans without question. He looks nothing like the monster she expected, his charm slipping under her skin before she can stop it. While pretending to be the woman on his arm, someone else lingers just out of sight, eyes fixed and unblinking. A second player waits nearby, fingers tracing blade edges, patience wearing thin. Death was supposed to be outsmarted by Paige. Yet love arrived, carried in the arms of someone meant to ruin everything she built.

Desperate for her own reasons, Jillian accepted the role to pretend as her twin sister, Julia, when the latter fell into a coma. She was the unwanted daughter that was cast away and left to fend for herself. And yet when the family business was on the verge of bankruptcy, she was obliged to marry Julia's fiance, Billionaire Sake Fortalejo. But Sake must not know that she was not Julia in the whole course of the pretense. The agreement would be to come and go as if she never existed. When Julia wakes up, she would resume whatever Jillian started. Sounds easy as Jillian was Julia's exact replica, but if only Jillian did not find herself falling for the man she couldn't have. But fate had other plans and the secret was out before she could stop it. Julia suddenly woke up from her coma and Sake found out about Jillian's deceit. Everything happened so fast that before Jillian knew it, she was faking her own death as an exit. She would leave like how they planned it in the beginning. Only that this time, Sake knew Jillian happened. But could she really pretend to be dead forever? Or would fate intervene again?

He promised to protect him from a killer. He never said he was one. When journalist Ian Parker witnesses a brutal murder, he should have been the killer's next victim. Instead, he wakes up in the hospital, saved by Zhedya Hunter…a brilliant forensic pathologist, a reclusive CEO, and a man with chilling grey eyes that feel hauntingly familiar. Charismatic and dangerously possessive, Zhedya offers Ian shelter in his opulent penthouse, a gilded cage where every comfort is a chain. As Zhedya's obsession deepens, Ian's career skyrockets, with damning evidence against the city's most wanted criminals mysteriously falling into his hands. But each exclusive story comes with a price: a fractured memory, a drugged haze, and a growing pile of bodies connected to anyone who threatens their twisted paradise. Now, Ian is trapped in a nightmare of luxury and lies, unraveling a truth more terrifying than any headline: his savior is a predator, his sanctuary is a crime scene, and the man who claims to love him is the most prolific murderer he will ever interview. Learning how to love a murderer is easy. Surviving him is the real story.

Hudson Ford and Callie Clarke fall in love but never once discuss it, until a single night turns everything around. They finally consummate their relationship, only to have Callie disappear the next morning. Hudson wakes up to discover that she is missing, and his world is turned upside down. Years go by before Callie reenters Hudson's life. Now a stunning, poised architect, she struts into a conference room with poise and confidence. Men glance at her in admiration, and Hudson is shocked. He never imagined seeing her again, but here she is, more seductive than ever. As soon as Callie lays eyes on Hudson, her world freezes. All the self-discipline she has constructed around herself starts to disintegrate. She questions whether she will surrender to her need for Hudson or whether she will fall into the deep peril she initially escaped. Convinced not to lose Callie once again, Hudson makes a decision to reclaim her no matter what. He demands answers from Callie as to why she vanished from his life. His pursuit sets off a storm of memories that risk destroying their relationship.

"You like what I do to you, darling? As much as you don't want it, your eyes show desire." Noah wakes up to a naked man in his bed. Last night, this naked man was a stray he picked up off the rain-soaked streets of Chicago's South Side. Noah doesn't know what he's brought into his life, but as the stranger begins to unravel showing his dark, mysterious side, he finds himself in a love that's forbidden. Dominic Voss, a cold mafia boss who loses his memories after a brutal hit from rival gangs, finds himself in the gritty world of strip clubs and survival. Hunted down by his enemies, Dominic creates an illusion of happiness with Noah, even when he has sixty days left before his amnesia leads to permanent memory loss and his past catches up. Their love is forbidden. A mafia boss. A stripper. It's war. Dominic isn't willing to let go, but if his rivals get to him first, he won't even remember Noah loved him at all.

After claiming her stepsister instead of her, years later, her mate is on his knees… begging for the love he once threw away. ***** Clara Hale was never truly wanted. Not by her father, or by her pack. Even by the man fate chose for her that turned out to be Alpha Damien Grayson; the one man she had secretly loved for years. But when the bond connected them, he rejected her right away and chose her stepsister instead. Years later, after enduring several abuse and maltreatment, Clara is forced into an arranged marriage with an Alpha Prince of a rival pack. A man who had been in a coma for seven years. A vegetable. But days after she arrives at the new pack and tends to him, he wakes up, and he turns out to be her second chance mate. But just when she finally finds peace and love with her new mate, Damien comes back, stating he wants her again, that he'd made a mistake. But it's too late. Clara is not the same weak girl anymore. She is a Luna queen, strong and respected, and loved by her new mate who truly sees her worth.

Valentina was looking forward to spending the holidays with the love of her life, her fiancee Derek. She had put off joining her family at their ski resort this year as Derek had wanted it to be just the two of them, and with his work schedule, he couldn’t afford the time off. Her family, although disappointed, was happy for her, glad she had someone special to spend Christmas with. Derek was unfortunately not as special as he made out, which she discovered when she came home early one day and found him screwing a work colleague. She breaks off the engagement and decides to Surprise her family on Christmas day, taking a plane to their resort on Christmas Eve. Instead of letting them know she was there, she went for a few drinks in the bar, where she met a handsome stranger. He wasn’t exactly a stranger, but it had been so long since they had seen each other they had both changed so much they didn’t recognise each other. A few too many drinks and a night of passion, Valentina wakes up in the morning with an extra gift she wasn’t expecting this year.

Jericho is an accomplished operative working for a clandestine organization. Living a modest life in Iowa, he is drawn to Charlotte and pulled into the web of her own secrets. The realization that he could love her forever creates a dilemma. Does he love her or does he let her go. He lives in a dangerous world, one where death is the only escape. When a hit goes wrong, his client puts a price on his head and Jericho has to go underground. He leaves his life behind without thinking twice and also the woman he loves. He vanishes into thin air and starts hunting those sent to kill him. When Charlotte awakens his dormant memories, he realizes the truth. He is a descendant from a long line of people who shift into wolves. On the day he is meant to die, Kiran Sinclair saves him and he wakes up in Seward, Alaska. With his wolf abilities no longer dormant, Jericho knows that the Director will stop at nothing to destroy his entire family and Jericho takes the fight to him. His tale is a compelling blend of intrigue, romance, and remorse.

She never wanted him, she hated his family, she hated his elder brother, Lucas, for raping her, she hated the Winston's family and that hatred spread to her relationship with him, she never thought that she will get married to Damien Winston. But it happens when Lucienne wakes up one day and finds herself in the body of Cherry, the arranged bride of Damien Winston. She has to take onto the new identity of Cherry and marry from the same family she hated so much. She wants to go back to her own body but she can't... She must stay with Damien Winston as his wife, she must take the man who raped her as her brother in law. Will she ever let go of her hatred towards the Winston's family? What happens when her brother in law, her rapist, suddenly wants her? And more, what happens when the real Cherry is back and wants her position as the wife of Damien Winston? Will Lucienne give it up for the rightful owner or will she fight for something that was never hers, the heart of Damien Winston?

Micah tore his fate apart the night he rejected Freya;the wolfless, fragile daughter of his pack’s beta for Gaia, the fierce warrior daughter of a neighboring alpha. His betrayal broke more than her heart; it shattered her place in the world. Mocked by her pack, blamed by her parents, and left with nothing but scars, Freya vanished into the shadows. Until fate found her again. Ambushed and poisoned by his enemies, Alpha King Lucian’s life is slipping away when a strange force binds him to the very girl destiny abandoned. That night, something ancient wakes inside Freya;something wild enough to defy the Moon Goddess herself. Years later, Freya returns. No longer broken, no longer the girl they pitied. She’s powerful, untamed, and burning with secrets the gods wish to bury. When old grudges ignite and buried truths claw their way to light, even the Moon Goddess won’t decide her fate only Freya will. But love is a curse that never dies. And when her former mate comes crawling back into her orbit, she’ll have to choose: vengeance... or the fire that still binds their soul